Population Explosion due to Hurricane - Democratic Underground

BOSSHOG

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:31 PM
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Population Explosion due to Hurricane

I live near a small town in Southern Mississippi. We were far enough north that we didn't have the extent of damage that New Orleans and the Gulf Coast had. Prior to Katrina the population of Picayune, Mississippi was 13,000. After the hurricane(s) the population of that town is 40,000+ due to migration and those seeking shelter and food and support. The population tripled in less than a month. Driving around is fun.

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NNadir

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:32 PM
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1. How are you dealing with it?

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Angry Girl

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:35 PM
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2. Wow! What a change!

Would you consider blogging the sociological and economic changes in your town over the next few years? You could probably get a federal grant to study this phenomenon.

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KamaAina

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:35 PM
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3. How many do you expect will stay?

Enough that you might consider adding urban services like transportation?

Hey, maybe you could even start a daily paper: "The Picayune Times" :-)

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BOSSHOG

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Thu Oct-06-05 02:00 PM
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6. We got a few cabs!!!!!

and the city does have a daily newspaper. I will not comment on its quality. I do not foresee the current population sustaining. It will take some time but eventually many of those who migrated here will head back home. Only a guess on my part but I can't imagine all these new people staying here. The current state of the economy here can not sustain such a number for long.

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walkon

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:44 PM
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4. Wife took a new job in B'ham

We went apartment hunting this past weekend and what an ordeal it was. At one complex of about 600 units more than half had been rented by storm evacuees - most from New Orleans. Every complex had a "large" evacuee influx. At our last stop Sunday we found something close to what we wanted and where we wanted. Out of more than a dozen complexes we visited only two had units available before the first of the year.

We are moving from the Mobile area so part of the attraction of the job was to get away from serious storm harassment.

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ender

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Thu Oct-06-05 01:48 PM
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5. yeh... this is going to be interesting.

dispersing 1.5 million people from the city, mostly horrifically poor, and african america, through rural mississippi, alabama and lousiana.

then, we're going to fuck delivering aid to them.

anybody else think this sounds like a formula for race riots?

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